Police officer charged with reckless driving in fatal crash testifies
The police officer charged with reckless driving causing the death of a five-year-old boy took the stand in his defence at his trial on Monday. Patrick Ouellet took less than an hour to give his side...
View ArticleDaughter of Mom Boucher faces new charges
The daughter of former Hells Angels leader Maurice (Mom) Boucher was arrested by the Sûreté du Québec on Saturday, a little more than a month after she was sentenced to house arrest for being in...
View ArticleMan to serve 8 years for sexually assaulting stepdaughter from age 6
A man who sexually assaulted his stepdaughter for years, beginning when she was just six years old, was sentenced to an eight-year prison term at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday. Kevin Brown, 43,...
View ArticleJury in Antonio Accurso's Laval collusion trial is sequestered
The jury in Antonio Accurso’s second trial, on charges alleging he took part in a system of collusion when the city of Laval awarded contracts before they were put to tender, is now sequestered. The...
View ArticleMafia-linked fugitive drug smuggler settled unimpeded in Canada after...
Last summer, Norman Rosenblum returned to Canada after having been a fugitive for 18 years. He had skipped out on a sentence he was serving for having brokered, along with members of the Hells Angels...
View ArticleHow a Mafia-linked drug smuggler ended up behind bars after 18 years on the lam
Last summer, Norman Rosenblum returned to Canada after having been a fugitive for 18 years. He had skipped out on a sentence he was serving for having brokered, along with members of the Hells Angels...
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West Island man will be tried for manslaughter in 2019
A jury trial date has been set for fall 2019 for a Kirkland resident who was charged with manslaughter last year after a 70-year-old man died following an altercation in a bar. During a hearing held at...
View ArticleTerror conviction for making bomb threats to avoid exam at Concordia
Hisham Saadi, the graduate student who tried to get out of an exam by issuing bomb threats that forced Concordia University to evacuate three buildings last year, was convicted of a terror-related...
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Convicted murderer tied to West End Gang seeks early release
A former professional boxer and convicted killer with ties to the West End Gang has applied for a so-called faint-hope clause hearing in an effort to be eligible for parole later this year, instead of...
View ArticleAccurso trial: Deliberating jury asks question about key witness
The jury in the municipal corruption and fraud trial of construction magnate Antonio Accurso emerged from its fourth day of deliberation on Friday with a question concerning a key prosecution witness....
View ArticleYouth charged with homicide in Nuns Island acquitted by a jury
A jury has acquitted a youth who was charged with second-degree murder after having stabbed another teenager on Nuns’ Island more than year ago. Tiago Murias, one of two defence lawyers who represented...
View ArticleAntonio Accurso found guilty in Laval corruption case
Former construction entrepreneur Antonio Accurso was found guilty by a jury on Monday of all five charges against him in a Laval fraud and corruption trial. The verdict came on the seventh day of the...
View ArticleLongtime member of Quebec Hells Angels arrested in New Brunswick
A Quebec-based Hells Angel who has long been alleged to be the group’s connection to New Brunswick is expected to appear in court on Wednesday following his arrest in that province on cocaine...
View ArticleN.D.G. massage therapist pleads guilty to five more sexual assaults
David Kost, the massage therapist who pleaded guilty to having sexually assaulted two of his clients earlier this year, has pleaded guilty to having done the same to five other women. Kost entered the...
View ArticleMan shot in Laval is a suspected loan shark tied to West End Gang
A man who was shot in broad daylight outside a gym in Laval on Tuesday is a alleged loan shark with ties to the West End Gang. A police source confirmed a published report that the victim of the...
View ArticleMan who manufactured firearms used in Mob hits awaits sentence
The owner of a factory in LaSalle who was convicted last month of trafficking in prohibited semi-automatic pistols will learn on Thursday how much time he will have to serve behind bars for producing...
View ArticleAntonio Accurso should be imprisoned, Crown argues at sentencing hearing
Antonio Accurso will find out next week whether he will have to serve time behind bars for having participated in Laval’s corrupt system of awarding construction contracts to colluding companies before...
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Man killed in Laval had ties to highest levels of Montreal Mafia
The 45-year-old man who was fatally shot in Laval Wednesday night had ties to leaders in the Montreal Mafia. The victim of the shooting is Laval resident Steve Ovadia, according to the Sûreté du...
View ArticleMan charged with second-degree murder in Laval woman's death
The man who had been sought for days as a suspect in the death of a woman in Laval made his first court appearance on a murder charge Thursday afternoon. Christopher Oliviera, 31, made a brief...
View ArticleBribe-taking federal bridge official gets day parole, with a catch
A former head of the corporation that maintains the Jacques Cartier and Champlain bridges who accepted bribes from SNC-Lavalin has been given the option of doing charity work in an effort to teach him...
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